Re: stopping sendmail completely
On 2004/10/14, at 15:42, Mark Frasa wrote: Hi, I wish to stop sendmail from starting during boot up completely since I don't need it. And I found this on the net: By the way, if getting rid of Sendmail is your goal, then sendmail_enable=NONE, while working, is not the best solution. sendmail_enable, like the other sendmail_* knobs, is an rc.sendmail setting, and you can easily disable even loading rc.sendmail by setting the mta_startup_script knob to an empty string (). Does this mean that I only need to add the entry: #-- mta_startup_script= #- in /etc/rc.conf to stop sendmail completely? Choy Kho Yee From /usr/src/UPDATING: 20020411: New sendmail startup scripts have been installed to make it easier to use alternative MTAs with FreeBSD. The rc.conf variable mta_start_script can be set to a script for starting an alternative MTA or to to prevent any MTA from being started at boot. So the answer is yes. :) Mark. Thanks, Mark. I didn't know that I can find answer of this kind in UPDATING :) You enlightened me. One more question about /etc/rc.conf, is the order in which you list the options important? --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/ There are only 10 types of people in the world, i.e. those who understand binary numbers and those who do not. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: stopping sendmail completely
Hi, I wish to stop sendmail from starting during boot up completely since I don't need it. And I found this on the net: By the way, if getting rid of Sendmail is your goal, then sendmail_enable=NONE, while working, is not the best solution. sendmail_enable, like the other sendmail_* knobs, is an rc.sendmail setting, and you can easily disable even loading rc.sendmail by setting the mta_startup_script knob to an empty string (). Does this mean that I only need to add the entry: #-- mta_startup_script= #- in /etc/rc.conf to stop sendmail completely? Thanks. --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/ There are only 10 types of people in the world, i.e. those who understand binary numbers and those who do not. --- From /usr/src/UPDATING: 20020411: New sendmail startup scripts have been installed to make it easier to use alternative MTAs with FreeBSD. The rc.conf variable mta_start_script can be set to a script for starting an alternative MTA or to to prevent any MTA from being started at boot. So the answer is yes. :) Mark. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stopping sendmail completely
Hi, I wish to stop sendmail from starting during boot up completely since I don't need it. And I found this on the net: By the way, if getting rid of Sendmail is your goal, then sendmail_enable=NONE, while working, is not the best solution. sendmail_enable, like the other sendmail_* knobs, is an rc.sendmail setting, and you can easily disable even loading rc.sendmail by setting the mta_startup_script knob to an empty string (). Does this mean that I only need to add the entry: #-- mta_startup_script= #- in /etc/rc.conf to stop sendmail completely? Thanks. --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/ There are only 10 types of people in the world, i.e. those who understand binary numbers and those who do not. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
